4 MARCH 1966, Page 14

Ste,—If young Mr. Ian Smith (absit omen!) wishes to stand

forth as a champion of grammar-school education against what he calls, revealingly enough. 'the bogy of comprehension,' he will do well to purge his future letters of such solecisms as the use of 'phenomena' as a singular noun and 'viz.' where 'e.g.' (or, in plain English, 'for example') would have been correct. If these are the fruits of sixth-form grammar-school education, the sooner it yields to 'comprehension,' the better.